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The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Each man believes only his experience.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Process vs. plan.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Distraction, focus.
Slow down.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Labor, leverage.
Done is better than perfect.
Failure = feedback.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Comfort vs. pain.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Truth.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The giver is the recipient.
Switching costs.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
+2 vs. x2
Appreciation.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Experience is up only.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You are here.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Shoot.
Equity unites, politics divides.
It's all relative.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction is dilution.
The first step is the steepest.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Perspective.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
